#ThisIsWhyWeNeedPolytheism (My Polytheist testimonial)

(Contributing to the tag that Anomalous Thracian started. Please read his many excellent posts with this tag.)

All of my life I’ve heard voices and had seemingly random and frightening spiritual encounters. I’ve suffered from horrendous nightmares and night terrors. Medication has never helped – and I never understood how pills could help anyway. In the religions that I was raised in, the only option when creepy things happened was to reach out to their Highest Power and beg for intervention – which sometimes helped, but only rarely and often provoked more conflict and visitation. In the Ceremonial Magic tradition I moved to later, it was possible to interact with the spirits that I knew lurked around me – but only if I knew their names, only if I could create the right charts for them, only if they fit into the worldview of the practice, and only if I threatened…